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A Fool's Alphabet

By: Sebastian Faulks
Narrated by: Julian Glover
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Brought to you by Penguin.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER


Amidst the letters of the alphabet, a life reveals itself. Flashing backwards and forwards through time, we meet Pietro Russell. As a photographer in Sri Lanka, a schoolboy in Fulham and even before he was born to his wounded English father and young Italian mother. The extraordinary moments of Pietro's life are navigated with unique imagination, giving the listener a chance to view a life from a new and moving vantage point.

A Fool's Alphabet is a novel of true invention from a master storyteller that sees life in all of its compelling, poignant glory.

'Ambitious and beautifully crafted' THE TIMES
'Faulks writes with great emotional authority'
SUNDAY TIMES

©1992 Sebastian Faulks (P)2011 Penguin Audio
Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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Beautiful just beautiful.
No phrase, no sentence could be disliked. A Faulks favourite of mine.

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